![]() ![]() It’s a winning story of tenacity that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in their own family. In the title role, Kyle Catlett blends adult imagination and childish innocence with ease.Īs he did in ‘Amelie’, French film-maker Jean-Pierre Jeunet tells a simple fable with witty visuals, colourful characters and a warm heart. Spivet’ has plenty to dazzle the eye, with diagrams and illustrations floating from the screen as our young boy’s imagination dissects the world around him. With its deliberately over-bright palette and imposing vistas, ‘T.S. Like Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ which also featured a young boy at large in an automated world, this poignantly playful film finds its way into a lost world of machines (and situations), the complex workings of which are always on view. Spivet’ takes gleeful visual pleasure in the tale of a young genius from Montana, who runs away to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, after apparently inventing a perpetual motion machine. This adaptation of Reif Larsen’s book ‘The Selected Works of T.S. ![]()
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